Remember when people questioned whether Crash Bandicoot could possibly be relevant in 2017? Well, the orange furred fave has done okay for himself this Christmas, with the N. Sane Trilogy climbing up the UK sales charts into sixth position over the holidays. This is a muted British best sellers list due to the lack of new releases, but Call of Duty: WWII has continued its killer run of form, topping for the eighth successive week with a 29 per cent increase in sales.

It's the UK. As @Mahe points out, even Knack (worldwide sales estimated at 1.87m) managed to outsell Mario 3D World (worldwide sales 5.7 million) in the first week they were out in the UK. Nintendo have always struggled in the UK mainly down to their own mismanagement. Switch seems to be doing a bit better though.

@electrolite77 well they’re kinda scewed due to not just mismanagement and irrelevancy due to Wii U n to a smaller extent 3DS as people just don’t overly care in the UK that is for Portable devices... but there’s one thing in the UK Sony just overshadows everyone in terms of Systems and market share in the UK if you’re gonna get a System it’s gonna be PS4/PS4 Pro...

And yes the misspelling of a word in that paragraph was intentional...

Remember when people questioned whether Crash Bandicoot could possibly be relevant in 2017? I member!

It proves that many people really care about 3D platformers. We need more games of the genre.I really want more Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, Ape Escape and Jak and Daxter. Spyro really should come back too. Sony should buy the rights of Spyro.

The top 3 games have all been bundled with PS4 consoles, and continue to be, so I bet that contributes to these positions. I've been trying to buy a PS4 for a couple of weeks, but I won't until I can get one that doesn't come with any of those 3 games or a bloody playlink game as I don't want them!

@dark_knightmare2 because I'd rather it came with a game (or games) that I want to play, rather than the hassle of selling them on. There have been other deals with games I want and an extra controller, so I'm just waiting for them to appear again. Selling on eBay is a pain in the backside, and that's before eBay and PayPal take their massive cut.

Sony got it dead right into the UK from the start. They were the first of the platform holders to not treat the UK like an afterthought, putting lots of effort into marketing and courting retail and the press. Nintendo didn't even handle their own distribution until 2002. They don't stand a chance now.